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morning people rule the world
Dec. 8th, 2022 10:21 pmThe world seems to have normalized the behaviour of the morning people, and not that of the night owls.
Night owls can get to work on time just like everyone else. So why is there a difference? The real difference between the two types is not in the times they prefer to get up or go to bed, it's in how their brains function. The brains of morning people come online sooner than those of night owls. You know the difference - one person wants to be chatty over breakfast while the other just wants to suffer in silence, or is just having trouble keeping up.
So you're thinking, well if their brains function so poorly, of course they're going to have trouble in our world. But that's not it - the power runs down on the morning people's brains fairly early in the day. In fact, it's around the time that the night owls' brains are going at full speed. Some people show up for work, and right away they're ready to get rolling. But it takes other people a couple of hours. But that former group isn't getting much done in the afternoon, while the latter is going full steam ahead.
Here's the real problem: they'll say "you can't schedule a meeting for 3:00 in the afternoon. Everybody is checked out. You'll never get anything done." Wait a minute... I can't schedule you for a meeting in the afternoon, because you're running out of steam, but if I'm not up to full steam at 8 am, that's a failing on my part? It's 5:00 and I don't want to quit because I'm on a roll, and where are you? At home, struggling to get supper together? But at 7 am you're raring to go, and complaining that I'm at home struggling to get breakfast together.
They're different sides of the same coin, but somehow the night owls are seen as deficient.
Night owls can get to work on time just like everyone else. So why is there a difference? The real difference between the two types is not in the times they prefer to get up or go to bed, it's in how their brains function. The brains of morning people come online sooner than those of night owls. You know the difference - one person wants to be chatty over breakfast while the other just wants to suffer in silence, or is just having trouble keeping up.
So you're thinking, well if their brains function so poorly, of course they're going to have trouble in our world. But that's not it - the power runs down on the morning people's brains fairly early in the day. In fact, it's around the time that the night owls' brains are going at full speed. Some people show up for work, and right away they're ready to get rolling. But it takes other people a couple of hours. But that former group isn't getting much done in the afternoon, while the latter is going full steam ahead.
Here's the real problem: they'll say "you can't schedule a meeting for 3:00 in the afternoon. Everybody is checked out. You'll never get anything done." Wait a minute... I can't schedule you for a meeting in the afternoon, because you're running out of steam, but if I'm not up to full steam at 8 am, that's a failing on my part? It's 5:00 and I don't want to quit because I'm on a roll, and where are you? At home, struggling to get supper together? But at 7 am you're raring to go, and complaining that I'm at home struggling to get breakfast together.
They're different sides of the same coin, but somehow the night owls are seen as deficient.
